Jim Rohn Motivational Quotes
“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”
“There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.”
“I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.
“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”
“One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention”
“You must take personal responsibiity. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”
“The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, “If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. “Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.”
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
“When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.”
“Either you run the day or the day runs you..”
“Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.”
“Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.”
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planed for you? Not much.”
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
“Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs”
“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.”
“Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ”
“Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom”
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment”
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
“Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.”
“What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know”
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
“For every promise, there is a price to pay… If the promise is clear, the price is easy…”
“For things to change, you have to change.”
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
“Poor people have big TV’s. Rich people have big libraries.”
“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”
“Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”
“Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.”
“We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.”
“How long should you try? Until.”
“Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills.”
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.”
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”
“Everything you need for better future and success
has already been written. And guess what?
All you have to do is go to the library.”
“Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.”
“The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them”
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
“Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can.”
“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”
“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”
“Success is something you attract by the person you become ”
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“If you don’t like how things are, change it. You are not a tree.
“The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read.”
“Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.”
“Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”
“Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.”